Engine and Transmission Tech

Greetings,

I am in the process of looking at engine upgrades for my old land rover. One of the engines that I am looking at is the good old carbed sbc. I really don't need much power, just enought to push the old girl up to the ski hill a little easier. After sorting out my gearbox setup, I now see that the engine would sit between the footwells. The space has no "top" only the sides. I don't have an engine in front of me and I seem to get wildly different numbers from the internet. I was wondering if anybody could give me some insight into the overall width with some block huggers on it. I really don't care what waterline the measurement is take at. I am just after the abosulute width on the rearish of the motor. Do the blockhuggers save much on the width at all? Any help you can give would be great.

I'll run the question past some of the guys on my Vega list. They'll probably know.

Adam,
Just saw your message. I'll put my block huggers on and reply
back here again in a couple of days.

Tracy

Adam,
I show approximately 26.25 inches at the outer edges of
the rear pipes. My headers are off the shelf from Summit
Racing, they have 1.75 inch pipes. The collectors dump
just to the rear of the engine mounts and are approx 16.75
inches apart at the outer edges of the collectors. They
cost $185. Sanderson makes several different headers
for the small block chevrolet that are even narrower than
block huggers, be fore warned, they aint cheap. Hope
this helps.

Tracy